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(PlasticsNews) -- Formosa
Group’s Chinese polypropylene production might be affected by a recent
explosion at the firm’s oil refinery in Mailiao.
No one was injured in the July 25 blast, which occurred in the refinery’s
desulphurizing unit. The cause of the explosion has not been identified, and
officials with Taipei, Taiwan-based Formosa could not be reached for comment.
As a result of the explosion, units with almost 2 billion pounds of annual
propylene monomer capacity have been taken down, according to published reports.
Those units in part supply Formosa’s PP works in Ningbo, China, which have annual capacity
of almost 1 billion pounds of PP.
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